WASHINGTON – Monday, Alliance Defending Freedom and a number of co-sponsoring organizations launched GetYourCare.org, an interactive website that allows Americans to locate low-cost community health centers near them. The site provides a national map that displays the locations of all centers currently eligible for federal funds, with other types of centers to be added as time goes on. A news conference about the new site will be held Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. EDT at the ADF office in Washington, D.C.

“Thousands of low-cost health providers – offering a wide range of women’s services, like breast cancer screenings and preventative care – can be trusted with our hard-earned money,” said ADF Director of Alliance Relations Alison Howard. “These federally qualified health centers offer many of the same services as Planned Parenthood and include many more services Planned Parenthood is not licensed to do: immunizations, mammograms, cardiovascular blood tests, diabetes and glaucoma screenings, radiological services, and prenatal care, for example.”

GetYourCare.org is a resource made available by the pro-women and pro-life movements of America. The site explains that its goal “is to give women everywhere in America access to information about the thousands and thousands of quality health care options women have.”

“Better choices for women are usually right around the corner. Alternative women’s health options are on average less than five miles away from the nearest Planned Parenthood,” Howard explained. “According to Planned Parenthood’s own statistics, fewer than 2 percent of women ever step into a Planned Parenthood facility in a given year. There are better choices for women’s healthcare than Planned Parenthood who’s president, Cecile Richards is called before congress Tuesday morning to explain the scandals surrounding her organization. Our tax money should fund those better choices.”

The website’s sponsors include Alliance Defending Freedom, Charlotte Lozier Institute, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, Live Action, March for Life, March for Life Action, Pregnant on Campus, Pro-Life Future, Susan B. Anthony List, Students for Life, CitizenLink, Americans United for Life, and The Radiance Foundation.

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ABOUT Alison Howard

Alison Howard is director of alliance relations at Alliance Defending Freedom. Before joining ADF, she served as communications director for Concerned Women for America, the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization. Howard also interned at Fox News and worked as a sideline sports reporter for the Flames Sports Network in Virginia. She was a founding member of the Young Women for America chapter at Liberty University, where she received a B.S. degree with honors in communications (advertising/public relations) and double minors in psychology and journalism. Howard was recently named to the Republican National Committee’s list of “Rising Stars” as well as Red Alert Politics’ “30 under 30” list and Christianity Today’s Reader’s Choice “33 under 33.”